President Donald Trump expressed skepticism that the recent spate of UFO sightings could be anything other than of this world.

“I think it’s probably — I want them to think whatever they think,”
Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in their interview, which will
air Sunday. “They do say, and I’ve seen, and I’ve read, and I’ve heard.
And I did have one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying
they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particular.”

While parts of the interview have already been made public, ABC released the UFO portion Saturday morning on Twitter

“Well, I think my great pilots would know,” he continued. “Our great
pilots would know. They see things a little bit different from the past.
So we’re going to see. We’re watching, and you’ll be the first to
know.”

Citing “a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,” the Navy drafted new reporting procedures in the wake of a reported increase in UFO sightings.

“For
safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes
these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,”
the Navy wrote in an April statement to Politico. “As part of this
effort, the navy is updating and formalizing the process by which
reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant
authorities. A new message to the fleet that will detail the steps for
reporting is in draft.”

Former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo told Fox News host Tucker Carlson last month that he believed there is a “low probability” that at least some of the UFO sightings are an unknown foreign technology.

“[W]e
are well beyond right now establishing whether or not these things
exist,” Elizondo told Carlson. “It is an absolute fact that they are
there. Now, what they are, where they are from, who is behind the wheel,
we simply don’t know. Is it possible these things are a foreign
adversarial technology that somehow was developed in secret and we are
just now trying to figure these things out? It’s possible. But, there
are also other possibilities as well, of what these things could be.”